His use of the Florentine dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and Divine Comedy helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language. His De vulgari eloquentia ( On Eloquence in the Vernacular) was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. ĭante is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin, which was accessible only to educated readers. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language. 1265 – 14 September 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante ( English: / ˈ d ɑː n t eɪ, ˈ d æ n t eɪ, ˈ d æ n t i/, US: / ˈ d ɑː n t i/ ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. Statesman, poet, language theorist, political theoristĭante Alighieri ( Italian: c.
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